"Listening to poets read their work in the barn, you can almost feel Frost’s presence..."
2023 Hyla Brook Reading Series
Join a community of poets and poetry lovers who gather in the intimate setting of Robert Frost's barn to hear nationally-acclaimed poets read their work. Except for June, readings begin Thursdays at 6:30pm, include a reading by a Hyla Brook poet before the featured reader and are followed by an open mic. All readings are free and open to the public. For easy reminders, click the icons at bottom of the page and follow us on social media.
Matt Miller - Thursday, May 18, 6:30pm
Matt W. Miller is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Tender the River, winner of the Independent Publishers of New England Book Award, finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Prize, and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. He lives with his family in New Hampshire.
Martin Elster - Thursday, June 8, 6:30pm
Martin Elster. The winner of the 2022 Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest, Martin Elster comes from Hartford, Conn., where he studied percussion and composition at the Hartt School of Music and performed with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Martin, whose poetry has been strongly influenced by his musical sensibilities, has written two books, the latest of which is Celestial Euphony (Plum White Press, 2019).
Liz Ahl - Thursday, July 13, 6:30pm
Liz Ahl is the author of A Case for Solace (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022) and Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017), as well as several chapbooks. She has lived and taught and learned in New Hampshire since 2001 and can be found at http://www.lizahl.com.
Special Reading - Frost Farm Conference
Keynote Speaker Alfred Nicol, Friday, August 18, 7pm
Alfred Nicol’s most recent publication, from Wiseblood Books, is One Hundred Visions of War, a translation from the French of Julien Vocance (1878-1954). These poems, written in 1916 in the trenches of WWI, are among the first haiku written in the west. He is also the author of Animal Psalms (Able Muse), Elegy for Everyone (Prospero’s World), and Winter Light (University of Evansville). His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, Dark Horse, Commonweal, The Formalist, The Hopkins Review, The Best American Poetry 2018, and other literary journals and anthologies. More information about Alfred is available at https://www.alfrednicol.com/
Oliver de la Paz - Thursday, September 14, 6:30pm
Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, Mass., for 2023-2025. He is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. His newest work, The Diaspora Sonnets, is forthcoming from Liveright Press in 2023.
